Resignation and Ecstasy: The Moral Geometry of Collective Self-Destruction

Volume Three of Sacrifice and Self-Defeat

Mark P. Worrell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-34141-8 (ISBN)

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Resignation and Ecstasy challenges critical sociology and social philosophy to theorize neoliberalism from the standpoint of a moral economy of sacred forces that both frustrates and facilitates conceptual unifications in the quest for collective solidarity.

Once again, for the first time, Marx and Durkheim join forces while exploring the moral economy of neoliberalism. Resignation and Ecstasy provides a fresh perspective on the immortal vortex of sacred energies pulsating beneath the peculiar logic of modern accumulation. Relying on dialectical methods, classical sociology and psychoanalysis are reconstituted within an Hegelian social ontology to differentiate the ephemeral from the eternal aspects of social life.

Professor Mark P. Worrell (Ret.) is an Associate Editor at Critical Sociology. Worrell has published widely in critical theory journals and has authored or edited numerous books in the areas of conflict, class, theory, and social ontology.

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction: the Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

1The Negative Absolute

2Anti-reason

3Good and Evil

4Necessity and Reductionism

5Social Facts

6Suicide

7Absolute Psychology

8Sacrifice and the Concept

1 The Whirlpool of the Negative Absolute

1The Ghost of Solidarity

2The Bert and Ernie Dialectic

3The Void

4Infinity and Taboo

5Autonomy and Heteronomy

6Rights, Inevitability, and Necessity

7Nihilism and Skepticism

8Ekstasis and Resignation

9Piacula and Asceticism

10The Savage Child: infantilism and Primitivism

11Heterarchy and Autothematicism

12Compound Alienation

13Bombers, Shooters, and Drones

14The Grimace of the Vortex

2 A Formal Condensation of Moral Geometry

Conclusion: the Beginning of the End

Appendix: energy, Form, and Concept

1The Spirit of Obsolescence

2The Consciousness of the Whole

3Realism, Nominalism, Idealism, and Materialism

4Representations

5The Post-kantians

6Split Reasoning

7Hegel

8Dialectical Materialism

9Universals and Individuals

10Rationalism and Empiricism

11Viewpoints and Perspectives

12Sharks and Moderate Realism

13Social Realism and Social Constructionism

14The Return of Subjectivist Understandings

15Methodological Individualism

16The Really Real

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 167
Zusatzinfo	7 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	563 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	90-04-34141-2 / 9004341412
ISBN-13	978-90-04-34141-8 / 9789004341418
Zustand	Neuware